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jlore pallido, C. B. P., Park., ancl/or/'<? Sedmn monianvm 

 Coris caruIeafoL, Cat. H. R. P. [^Sax. aizoides, Linn.] 



Among other of our vegetable English rarities, I should 

 think the Sedum minus lato et crasso caule, Cat. H. R. P. 

 Portlandicmn Belgarum might have deserved some place 

 in yom' av ell-instructed Synopsis. I never was upon the 

 island myself, but I have had it from very worthy persons 

 that have seen it grow there. It is a vermiculate kind, 

 but I could not learn that it ever flowered. Perhaps the 

 grossness of its fascial stalk absorbs the nourishment that 

 might otherwise have contributed to the production of its 

 flowers. 



The Sedum Alpinum trifid. folio, C. B. P. [Sax. hyp- 

 noides, Linn.], must be allowed the same Avith the Sedis 

 affinis trisulca Alpiin. jt. albo, J. B., and yet I have seen 

 it in a dry season notably correspond both with the de- 

 scription and figure of the Sedum Alpin. hispidmn fere 

 spinosum \_Sax. aspera, Linn.] of the same author, and 

 perhaps the same thing. 



Page 151. The Cotyledon hirsuta, Ph. Br. \Sax. stel- 

 laris, Linn.], though to my own knowledge it be very 

 different from the Sedum minus, Clus., yet methinks it 

 bears a very favorable resemblance to the Sanicula 

 Alpince aliq_uatenus aflnis, J. B. 



1 must needs acknowledge that I am not a little en- 

 tangled in my thoughts about the Juncus parvus cum 

 jjericarpis rotundis, J. B. [Juncus compressus, Linn.], 

 which, though you are pleased to make the same with 

 the Gram. junc. marit., Lob., I cannot easily obtain 

 with myself a compliance herein, but do rather accept 

 it as the Juncus acutus Camhro-Britannic, Park., and 

 which I take to be a true and genuine Rush, as you 

 most truly have observed. But unto this you are pleased 

 to apply the Junc. Camhrohr., Park. (h. e.), Gr. junc. 

 maritim., Lob., whose Icon of it (and indeed so do 

 those of all other authors) agrees exactly with our Moss- 

 rush, the capsules whereof are somewhat elongated and 

 pinched in towards the top, resembling more a cone than 



